Album Reviews
Holly Humberstone
Cruel World
Apr 10, 2026 Web Exclusive
On Cruel World, Holly Humberstone delivers her most cohesive and emotionally intelligent album yet, blending intimate storytelling, reflective growth, and dark pop textures into a powerful exploration of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery.
Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
Bongo Fury: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Apr 09, 2026 Web Exclusive
Bongo Fury lives on as a document of a brief but furiously entertaining collaboration Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Expanding on the original album, the 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition offers an additional 48 tracks that include live and rare studio material.
Courtney Barnett
Creature of Habit
Apr 08, 2026 Web Exclusive
Almost a decade after Courtney Barnett captured our imagination with the wry, hyper-observant voices of her over-active interior life comes her fourth album, Creature of Habit, where she’s now joined by an equally formidable external chorus of people offering unwelcome counsel.
News
Subscribe Now for 50% Off and Receive The ’90s Issue Part 2
Apr 07, 2026
If you subscribe now for 50% off, for a limited time your subscription will start with The ’90s Issue Part 2 (aka Issue 75). But soon new subscriptions will switch over to start with the following edition (Issue 76).
Interviews
Hannah Cohen on “Earthstar Mountain”
Mar 19, 2026 Web Exclusive
Hannah Cohen’s Earthstar Mountain, her newest release and the strongest of her career, is a collection of songs that are contemplative (“Dusty”), defiant (“Draggin’”), delicate (“Mountain”), ethereal (“Earthstar”), and even a funky groove (“Summer Sweat”).
Come Together: The Story Behind War Child’s Original “HELP” Album
Mar 05, 2026 Issue #72 - The ‘90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore
The war in Bosnia had been raging on for four years when news of the Srebrenica massacre broke in July 1995. By then, 250,000 people had lost their lives and two million more had been displaced. But the long drawn out conflict had rendered most desensitized or apathetic.
Pleased to meet you
Holly Humberstone on Her New Album “Cruel World”
Apr 07, 2026
In this interview, Holly Humberstone opens up about her superb new album Cruel World, exploring nostalgia, songwriting, and the personal experiences shaping her most ambitious work yet.
Lists
Top 20 TV Shows of 2025
Jan 22, 2026
Television in 2025 was, admittedly, not as consistently strong as viewers have come to expect. As mergers continue to threaten quality, authentically prestige television still exists—and in enough abundance that, just three weeks into the new year, it’s worth taking stock of what rose to the top for us at Under the Radar.
The list is a mixed bag, which is very much a good thing. We love our Apple TV+ and our HBO Max. From dystopian dramas and bleak dramas to darkly comedic entries, sci-fi extremes, and procedurals turned on their heads, there’s plenty here to get stuck into. Below is our Top 20, with a handful of honorable mentions bringing up the rear. —Lily Moayeri (Under the Radar’s television editor)
Live reviews
Idlewild @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK, April 7, 2026
Apr 09, 2026
Idlewild kicked off their UK tour with a career spanning set at Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms earlier this week (Tuesday 7th April)
Blog
The Best Albums of February 2026 – Stream Them All Here
Mar 04, 2026
Last year we launched our Albums of the Month series, where we highlight the best albums released in the previous month. Now here is a roundup of February 2026’s best albums. We have included Bandcamp or Spotify embeds (some albums aren’t on Bandcamp) for each album and links to any reviews or interviews we did to support the release.
Media
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Cinema Reviews
Wasteman
Apr 13, 2026 Web Exclusive
Backed by a gut-wrenching turn from David Jonsson’s, Wasteman is a grimy, claustrophobic prison thriller distinctly of the social media age.
DVD Reviews
A Man and a Woman
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Apr 08, 2026 Web Exclusive
60 years later, Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman still steals our hearts.
Television Reviews
The Lady
Britbox, March 18, 2026
Mar 21, 2026 Web Exclusive
A frothy, distinctly British watch led by Mia McKenna-Bruce who is a revelation in the titular role of a former dresser of the Duchess of York turned convicted murderer.




